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Nutricia Gets ROI on QlikView Deployment within First Year
Technology Category
- Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics
Applicable Industries
- Consumer Goods
- Food & Beverage
Applicable Functions
- Quality Assurance
- Sales & Marketing
Use Cases
- Predictive Quality Analytics
Services
- Software Design & Engineering Services
- System Integration
The Challenge
Nutricia Netherlands, a part of the international food company Danone, develops, manufactures, and sells special diets for infants, young children, elderly people, and people with special dietary needs. The company faced a significant challenge in processing large quantities of data into meaningful reports for Quality Assurance and production using Excel spreadsheet software. It took a great deal of time and effort to extract relevant information from several data sources including SAP and other applications. Nutricia sought a business intelligence (BI) solution for faster insight into data, improved quality and efficiency of production, and easier access to safety report summaries.
About The Customer
Nutricia Netherlands is a company that develops, manufactures, and sells special diets intended for the most vulnerable in society—infants, young children, elderly people, and people with special dietary needs. It employs 500 people and is part of the international food company Danone. Danone is one of the leading companies in the global food industry with operations in over 150 countries. Danone group revenues rose to €17.1 billion in 2010 more than half of which was sales in emerging markets. Nutricia is the largest specialist nutrition company in Europe. Nutricia has a mission to lead the use of advanced medical nutrition in disease management and specialises internationally in providing healthy diets. Given the priority Nutricia attaches to food safety having a production environment where quality performance is paramount is vitally important in meeting high standards and the requirements of regulators.
The Solution
QlikTech Partner Provelu deployed QlikView 9.5 at Nutricia to 16 named users and 20 document users. There are also six extra local client users. Provelu helped Nutricia structure their data and design the graphics they wanted. In addition to their technical support, Provelu also built the application and the link to their database. QlikView is used in Nutricia's factory to handle enquiries in near real time on data from their safety system helping them to meet regulatory requirements. Interest in QlikView at Nutricia has spread to other departments. Nutricia finds QlikView highly user friendly. The First Time Right application in QlikView means Nutricia can meet their planning and quality assurance targets.
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